10 Crazy Villains The DC Cinematic Universe Will Never Admit Exist
6. Abra Kadabra
Comic book stories have long used variations of magicians and illusionists to create conflicts for costumed heroes, but the majority of those don't feature narcissistic stage magicians from the 64th century. Abra Kadabra debuted in Flash #128 in 1962 as an aspiring stage magician in an era of scientific advancement that makes stage magic obsolete, so naturally, he steals a time machine and goes back to the 1960s, with the malicious tool of forcing people to clap through hypnosis (That's not all though; he's also known for menacing puppet shows). Golden Age comics did too much time travel anyway, but a stage magician as a supervillain seems like a bit of a stretch even for comics, as does a villain motivated by reaching for an obsolete career. Introducing time travel as a method to get villains to the present also present problems, most especially the question of why don't more serious megalomaniac villains come back with powerful weapons to bend the world to their will? If time travel is going to be a plot element, it would have made sense to make a more intimidating villain than a stage magician.
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